Initial renderings and updated details have been revealed for the mixed-use development at 1325 W Fulton Street within Fulton Market District. Originally revealed earlier this year, developer Sulo Development presented their plans at a community meeting last night along with the local alderman.
Originally pitched as an office development, the team has since pivoted to a multi-tower multi-phased residential proposal that will focus on larger high-end condominiums. The block-long property bound by N Ada Street to the west and N Elizabeth Street to the west will be split into three phases each with their own tower, and 250 units in total.
Designed by architecture firms KPF and ParkFowler Plus, the first phase will rise on the eastern end of the site and reach 29 stories tall and 438 feet in height. Part of that will be a five-story podium that will occupy roughly half of the site, this will include 95 parking spaces, liner units, and be anchored by a small pocket plaza on the ground floor.
The podium itself will be capped by a large amenity deck that includes a pool. Inside of the tower will be 83 units split into 38 percent two-bedrooms, 50 percent three-bedrooms, and 13 percent four-bedroom layouts. While this phase is built, the remaining land will be converted into a fenced grass area and sales center, with the blank podium wall to feature a mural.
The building itself will include setbacks and terraces at the top, while the lower levels will include inset outdoor decks and balconies along the corners. The tower will also feature a gridded red brick facade that utilizes inverted bay windows accented with dark brown spandrels. The visible parts of the parking garage will be clad in a translucent glass and a metal grid.
With similar design languages, the second phase will bring a shorter center tower with a ground-floor retail space. This will share the podium of the first and rise 301 feet tall and 53 units. The third phase will rise 538 feet in height with 114 units, a second podium containing 79 parking spaces, rooftop pool deck, and another pocket plaza.
Overall costs for the project are still in flux, with the developer also looking to build the required affordable units off site as well as pay-in-lieu-of some. Phase one should begin sales around fall of 2025, with a potential groundbreaking a year later if sales go well and deliver in 2028. The development will now move to the Plan Commission for its first city approval.
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This is stunning. Love it
Did I just read this right–a condo development with a less than 1:1 parking ratio? Niiiiiiiiice!!!!
Also, with this and all the other developments coming up between Racine and Ogden, Fulton St is really going to be alive!
Wow.
Two garages,translucent glass,mesh screens.Sounds terrible.Mural even worse.
Damn, these are beautiful. Probably means they won’t be built as designed.
Well done. Great scale. Other developers should take note.
Finally a non-glass box in Fulton market – and wonderful design. Gives me hope.
this could be the best project in Fulton Market, please please please build it
This brick has me bricked
Absolutely love it and the parking ratios are much more what they should be for such a dense, walkable city! And they’ve kept parking wrapped by active uses following urbanism 101. I love the design details that compliment ones seen in buildings from other eras in Chicago – well done design team!
Gorgeous! PLEASE don’t cheap out and value engineer this to death.
Love it—Fulton needs more Sulo high-quality condos. One bedrooms would be nice too for singles!
Yeah that is never going to happen. Single people are supposed to live in apartments or buy one of the old condos from pre-2008. Or fork over huge money for this massive places. We never get a chance at nice new condos. It will be interesting to see what the 2 beds look like size/price wise here.
Build. This. Now.
Now THIS is the architecture we need more of in Chicago. Absolutely beautiful!
Immediately. Build it. Now.
This one is gonna hurt when it isn’t built…
There is no way this looks this good when it’s done… if it gets done.
Stricking, different, gorgeous, original… love it.
this area needs more high end condos rather than the glass cookie cutter apartment building thus far.
This is so similar to the recent project KPF did in Greenwich Village. Love it!